Issues with Auto Starting and _Timer_GetIdleTime

[ChrisD]

Hello everyone.  Thanks for taking the time to read my post.  I just learned about AutoIT a couple of weeks ago and have been pleasantly surprised at its functionality.  I administer a network with 60 end users and need to have a program run when:

1. The computer first boots up regardless of login
2. When the computer (keyboard and mouse) has been idle for a period of 20 minutes

I am using an AutoIT compiled exe to accomplish this task.  It works great when it is manually started by user interaction (clicking on it).  However when I run it with any of the following:

1. Scheduled Task of the AutoIT compiled exe
   1. Ran at Startup
   2. Ran Manually
   3. Ran at a Scheduled Time
2. As a service
3. Executed remotely with PsExec

The programs referenced in the autoit code will execute immediately and not close when user interaction begins / resumes.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.  The code is below (it will probably look familiar to many of you because parts of it come from the help file).

#include <Timers.au3>

$InactivityTrigger = 1200*1000 ;inactive for 20 Minutes

While True

    Dim $InactiveFor = _Timer_GetIdleTime()

    If $InactiveFor >= $InactivityTrigger And Not ProcessExists("RECavailable.exe") Then
         RunWait("genva.exe", "C:\windows\system32\")
         Sleep(1000)
         Run("RECavailable.exe -allvac/%computername% -colors 7", "", @SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED)
         ConsoleWrite("started" & @CRLF)

    ElseIf $InactiveFor < $InactivityTrigger Then

        ProcessClose("RECavailable.exe")
        ConsoleWrite("stopped" & @CRLF)

    EndIf

    If Not ProcessExists("RECavailable.exe") And Not IsFloat($InactiveFor/10) Then ToolTip("Inactive for: " & Round($InactiveFor/1000) & " seconds." & @CRLF & @CRLF & _
                   "Will run exe in " & Round( ($InactivityTrigger-$InactiveFor)/1000 ) & " seconds." )

Wend

As you can probably tell genva.exe is run one and done app before RECavailable.exe, its RECavailable.exe that is presenting the issues, as I mentioned earlier works great when I execute it manually just not in any of the other circumstances mentioned above.

On a side note I believe to be unrelated the primary issue I need to address as mentioned in this post is %computername% is not correctly passing the information as expected.  I can deal with that later or post a separate thread on that.

Thanks again to this awesome place. I am so glad I found AutoIT

[aa2zz6]

5 hours ago, ChrisD said:

2. When the computer (keyboard and mouse) has been idle for a period of 20 minutes

If the mouse has been idle for 20 minutes a msgbox will appear saying "PC is idle" for 5 seconds and idle until mouse moves again. 

#include <Timers.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

while 1
    If _Timer_GetIdleTime() > 20000 Then

            ; Assume Idle
            MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Idle", "PC is idle", 5)

            ; Now idle the script until it does something
            While _Timer_GetIdleTime() > 500
                Sleep(10)
            WEnd
    EndIf
WEnd

 

[BrewManNH]

Can you see what session ID the program and the AutoIt program are running on in Task Manager? _Timer_GetIdleTime only registers the last input from the session it's run from, which might cause some issues.

[ChrisD]

18 hours ago, BrewManNH said:

Can you see what session ID the program and the AutoIt program are running on in Task Manager? _Timer_GetIdleTime only registers the last input from the session it's run from, which might cause some issues.

Thanks for the suggestion BrewMan.  Both are running under the same Session ID 0 when they are started with any of the mentioned methods that do not work: 

On 3/16/2017 at 11:15 AM, ChrisD said:

• Scheduled Task of the AutoIT compiled exe
  1. Ran at Startup
  2. Ran Manually
  3. Ran at a Scheduled Time
• As a service
• Executed remotely with PsExec

However when manually starting the program (double clicking on it or executing via command line locally) both also get the same Session ID of 2, which has the program working as intended.  Thanks for pointing me this direction.  I also tried running psexec with a -i 2 command forcing session 2 and it worked. Is there anything I can do about that with my script.

 

aa2zz6

Sorry I really didn't go into detail in my first post regarding the operation of the last part of the script that also displays a tool tip with the idle time.

On 3/16/2017 at 11:15 AM, ChrisD said:

If Not ProcessExists("RECavailable.exe") And Not IsFloat($InactiveFor/10) Then ToolTip("Inactive for: " & Round($InactiveFor/1000) & " seconds." & @CRLF & @CRLF & _                    "Will run exe in " & Round( ($InactivityTrigger-$InactiveFor)/1000 ) & " seconds." )

 

Do you think that the code your provide may possibly help with the issue I am having?

Edited March 17, 2017 by ChrisD
Updating additional findings